Lying

To the Editor: I work for Pat Toomey. I am a full-time employee. I receive health insurance from my employer. I saw an ad on TV and then heard an ad on the radio and lastly, I get mail in my mailbox stating that Pat does not provide health care to his employees. I am not politically active, but I am sick of politicians lying. Roy Afflerbach's TV, radio and mail are lying about my health care coverage. If he is lying about that, then I cannot believe him or his campaign when they tell me about other things.

A Lehigh County jury late Thursday found Nelson Martinez Jr. guilty of repeatedly raping a young girl, starting when she was 10 years old. Martinez, 46, of Allentown, was livid. "I'm going to appeal it," he told county Judge Kelly L. Banach moments after the verdict was announced. "Just because I was found guilty doesn't mean I am guilty. " On the other side of the courtroom, the victim and her mother wept and hugged each other. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for three hours before finding Martinez guilty on charges of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and corruption of minors.

To the Editor: The eight-page report by the attorney general's office concluded that Lehigh County Sheriff Ronald Rossi lied in some statements to the attorney general's investigators regarding the Howorth jury fiasco. Later, in the same April 3 Morning Call article, Rossi's solicitor, John Karoly, stated that "the sheriff was vindicated from any alleged wrongdoing." Apparently Karoly, Rossi and far too many other people in this country do not consider lying to be wrong. We not only tolerate lying from our politicians and public officials, we expect it!

Romance, designer gowns, lavish parties, fast cars, private jets and lakeside mansions. The federal trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his first lady on corruption charges features all that and more. If you're headed to the beach, the transcript makes for riveting reading. You'll discover how the couple is trying to explain that Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams gave them $165,000 in loans and gifts because the governor's wife, Maureen, had a crush on him and that the governor knew nothing about it. "Another man," attorney William Burck argued, was able to "invade and poison the marriage," not to mention enrich it. Opposition researchers would spend years trying to get their hands on an email such as the one the McDonnells willingly proffered in court to prove their point.

An Easton woman found lying in a wooded area Friday night in Forks Township is being treated for hypothermia in Easton Hospital, according to hospital officials. Dawn Marie Fox, 26, of 1003 W. Berwick St., was in stable condition yesterday after she was found about 100 feet off Old River Road about 5 p.m., township police said. She was unable to move or talk, police said. The woman, dressed in a hooded parka, jeans and gloves and clutching her purse, was found by a man walking his dog, police said.

To the Editor: I am not going to advocate impeaching President Clinton or giving him a free pass. This decision must be made by the people elected to Congress. Polls should not determine such a serious situation, for the people are far too ignorant in constitutional law to make this decision. It is far more important for the people of this country to learn and teach the children the consequences of lying. The hardship and anguish caused by just one lie can be immense. The act that causes a person to lie cannot be undone, the lie cannot be undone, and the pain it causes cannot be undone.

This is in reference to the cartoon by Ted Rall on the Oct. 4 editorial page. Let me see if I understood this cartoon correctly. It was not okay for the Republican senator to support his president regarding the Gulf of Tonkin. It was okay for L.B.J. the Democratic president to lie, ("out of respect") to the American people. Since when has lying become a virtue? Oh, yes! -- I almost forgot about Bill Clinton. Cheryl D. O'Brien Longswamp Township

A Lehighton man was arrested for public drunkenness in Mechanicsville on Thursday. Gerald A. Shiffert, no age given, was arrested at 1:15 a.m. as he reportedly tried to hitch a ride on Route 209. Police said Shiffert was lying on the road at one point. When questioned by police, he said, "I'm playing the game with my friends."

A 25-year-old man was committed to Northampton County Prison Thursday after he was found lying on the ground near N. 9th and Markets streets in Bangor. George Louis Wilgus Jr., unknown address, was arraigned before District Justice Elmo Frey Jr. of Nazareth on charges of public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Bail was set at $1,000.

BATH An Allentown woman found lying on a Bath road on Monday ended up in Northampton County Prison charged with aggravated and simple assault, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness, police said. Colonial Regional police said when they responded to a report of two women lying down in the 200 block of S. Walnut Street, they came upon Stacy Anthony, 451 N. 22nd St., Allentown, and Crystal L. Mattia of the Fox Hotel, 104 E. Main St., Bath. Police said both were drunk and that Anthony fought with them.

James A. Dougherty was called before a Northampton County judge in February to explain why he had stopped paying child support. He allegedly told the judge he was unable to work for medical reasons, but members of the county domestic relations staff were suspicious of a doctor's note faxed to their office in support of his claim. After an investigation by the district attorney's office, Dougherty, 41, of Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, was charged with forgery and unsworn falsification to authorities, an offense that carries a two-year prison term, and is awaiting trial.

A Lehigh County Jail inmate charged with assaulting his girlfriend wrote her a letter asking her to lie about the alleged assault so the charges would be dropped, according to court records. Zachary M. Harding, 21, of Whitehall Township, ended the letter by asking, "Baby will you marry me?" and drew a picture of a ring, according to court records. The girlfriend replied by taking the letter to Whitehall police Friday, leading to a felony charge of intimidation of witnesses against Harding.

HARRISBURG — A woman says state Sen. Lisa Boscola lied when she claimed the woman had apologized to her for a heated dispute that led to Boscola getting tossed out of a bar. Boscola, a veteran Democratic lawmaker from Bethlehem Township, was asked to leave a Harrisburg bar April 8 after she got into a loud verbal fight with House Speaker Sam Smith, R-Jefferson. Later that night, Emilie Claire Benuck, a Harrisburg resident, claimed in a Facebook post that Boscola hit her during the altercation at the Brick Haus.

The revelation of an email trail linking the Obama White House to the fabricated statement of the cause of the Benghazi debacle is not surprising — nor is the blind faith that Americans have put in a president who has consistently intended to deceive the electorate. Strategically fabricated on the eve of the 2012 presidential election, the Benghazi lies accomplished their task to get president Obama re-elected. How long will Americans hold their delusional love for a morally corrupt leader?

Anybody who tells you that women don't get the same pay for the same job as a man is either misinformed, a fraud or a liar or knows of a crime being committed. The pack of lies, repeated ad nauseam, that women make only 77 percent of what a man makes is based on earnings in total, not on specific jobs. They aren't comparing apples with apples. They aren't comparing male plumbers with women plumbers. If they're honest at all, they will tell you they are comparing jobs more held by females than by males with jobs more held by males.

South Florida is looking for a new head basketball coach again after the school rescinded its offer to Manhattan's Steve Masiello late Tuesday night. The university had extended an five-year offer worth a reported $1 million annually to Masiello on Tuesday. But a background check uncovered that Masiello did not graduate from the University of Kentucky and lied about it on his resume, disqualifying him for the job, ESPN reported Wednesday. A Kentucky spokeswoman, Ashley Caressen, told ESPN that Masiello attended the university from 1996 to 2000 but never graduated.

An Allentown woman was hospitalized Saturday when police found her on the kitchen floor of her apartment, where she had been lying for two days after falling. Stanta Bray, 81, was listed in stable condition last night at Sacred Heart Hospital. Police responded to a report from a friend of Bray, who said she had been unable to reach Bray by phone. An officer on the scene heard Bray's moans from outside the apartment and called an ambulance.

An Easton man pleaded guilty yesterday to lying on a gun purchase application about whether he had been previously convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment. Ruben Fuentes, also known as Anthony Hernandez, 38, of 1406 Butler St., was charged with unsworn falsification to authorities for not telling the truth on an application on June 10 at John's Gun Room on Freemansburg Avenue in Palmer Township. Fuentes, who appeared before District Justice Ralph Litzenberger of Palmer Township, was ordered to pay a $200 fine and $78.75 in court costs.

A Bethlehem man who shook his 3-month-old daughter so hard that she had bleeding on both sides of the brain received a time-served to one-year prison sentence Tuesday. Jonathan Dejesus Perez, 23, who spent two months in jail before making bail, pleaded guilty in January to simple assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. Under Northampton County Judge Craig Dally's sentence, Perez will be on probation for three years once he completes his jail term.

One hundred and 20 years since its founding, a behemoth mill still dominates the street scene of Race and Linden on the banks of the Jordan. For generations, one could gaze through its towering windows to witness hundreds of immigrant men and women laboring over sewing stations and weaves producing the fabrics that would clothe a nation. Now, as its copper soffit oxidizes and its mortar crumbles, the Adeline Silk Mill sits vacant; its machines auctioned off and its production floors barren and buckling.